Gillian McClure’s books have been translated into many different languages and Selkie, published by Doubleday, won the US Parent’s Guide to Children’s Media Award. Other books of hers have been shortlisted for the Smarties Award and one was Highly Commended in the Kate Greenaway Award.

‘Full of the sense of another time and another place; an experience genuinely created and preserved.’ Quentin Blake in Books for Keeps.